The UN Security Council rejects a resolution demanding an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within three years.

Recovery teams are launching a "massive search" for victims of AirAsia flight QZ8501, as investigators hunt for the plane's data recorders.

Police in the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, find the body of a man after the shooting of eight people, including two children.

Italian rescuers take control of a Moldovan cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of Syrian migrants and abandoned by its crew.

The economy in oil-dependent Venezuela shrinks by 2.3% in the third quarter of the year and inflation reaches 63% amid dropping oil prices.

Six companies in China's Jiangsu province are fined 160 million yuan (£16.6m; $26m) for polluting rivers, the highest fine of its kind, say state media.

Tunisian President-elect Beji Caid Essebsi is to take his oath of office after winning the country's first free presidential poll.

Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are sent to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon says.